AWS Cloud Engineer at Home Office, Remote/Croydon, 12 Months, £Contract Rate

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active SC clearance. 

The Law Enforcement Cloud Platform (LECP) is the Home Office 's strategic cloud hosting solution for national law enforcement applications and products (LECP 's 'tenants '). LECP provides a secure, police-assured environment based on a common infrastructure design. By enabling access to shared services and tooling, LECP offers a cost-effective cloud solution, particularly for those needing to build new services or migrate away from existing hosting arrangements which no longer fulfil their requirements or align with organisational strategy.

As an AWS Cloud Engineer, you will work across 3 production teams, the CI/CD product team, the AMT team or the Ingress team. Your main responsibilities will be:

Essential:

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in designing, implementing, and maintaining infrastructure using Terraform, demonstrating a deep understanding of IaC principles to ensure scalability, reliability, and security.
• AWS Expertise: Extensive hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including but not limited to EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, Redshift, and VPC configurations, along with a thorough understanding of AWS best practices.
• Git/GitLab/ Pipelines: Strong command of Git/GitLab for version control, including implementing CI/CD workflows using GitLab CI.
• DevOps Methodologies: In-depth knowledge of DevOps principles and practices, with the ability to orchestrate and automate end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for software deployment, testing, and monitoring.
• Scripting and Programming: Proficient in multiple programming languages (e.g., Terraform, Python, Bash, Ansible). Able to design, code, test, correct, and document programs and scripts. Experience reviewing specifications and defining test conditions and procedures. Have directed code reviews and promote refactoring techniques to enhance an enterprise level application codebase.
• Containerisation and Orchestration: Working knowledge of containerisation technologies such as Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, enabling efficient deployment and scaling of containerised applications.
• Security and Compliance: Strong understanding of security best practices in cloud and infrastructure management, ensuring the implementation of robust security measures and compliance standards within the environment.
• Experience: A track record of 6+ years as a Platform / DevOps Engineer, with hands-on experience.

Preferred:

• Management of AWS Control Tower, Landing Zone along with the use methodologies like Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) or AWS Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA).
• Management of forward and reverse proxy solutions e.g. the open-source products like Suricate or Fortinet solutions, along with experience of using AWS Native gateway products like AWS Network Firewall and WAF.
• Experience with Ansible, Salt, Puppet.
• GitLab CI and Artifactory administration (self-hosted ideally).
• AWS Data services: Glue, Athena, Lake Formation, QuickSight.
• Exposure to Entra ID and Microsoft Active Directory.
• GitLab Runners
• AWS Grafana & Prometheus

Soft Skills:

• Strong troubleshooting and critical thinking.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to work independently and lead technical discussions.
• Time management and attention to detail.
• Patience and pragmatism when dealing with stakeholders.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, the Home Office guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

The Home Office guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.